Sunday Rules opens Del Mar's stakes barrage

Hudak hand-timed the race in 1:59.96, but he said the stopwatch figure is “almost always faster.”

Jockey Joe Talamo won two more races Wednesday, taking the second with outsider Rivers Run Deep ($49) and the sixth with Uncle Dick ($20). He has 18 wins for the meeting.

Baffert won the first race with Brannaman ($4.80) and Doug O’Neill took the eighth and last with J.K.’s Mischief ($7.80) as the two trainers moved to 19 wins for the meeting. John Sadler leads with 23. Leading rider Bejarano won a race to give him 42 wins, 17 more than Martin Garcia, who also won a race to get to 25. Maldonado is next with 24.